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April 2024

  • Joe Kinnear File Photos<br>File photo dated 28-12-2008 of Newcastle United manager Joe Kinnear. Former Tottenham defender and Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear has died at the age of 77, has family have announced in a statement. Issue date: Sunday April 7, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Kinnear. Issue date: Sunday April 7, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Kinnear. Photo credit should read Owen Humphreys/PA Wire.

    Joe Kinnear obituary

    Tottenham defender and Ireland international who kept Wimbledon in the top division as manager in the 90s

December 2023

  • Tony Blair and the then Northern Ireland secretary, Mo Mowlam, talking in Castle Buildings, Stormont, in April 1998.

    Blair was keen to relocate Wimbledon FC to Belfast in late 1990s, papers show

    Then PM thought move ‘would be excellent’ but Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam was sceptical

November 2020

  • AFC Wimbledon players train at the new Plough Lane ground.

    AFC Wimbledon's Plough Lane return: 'There was just an irresistible pull'

    Almost 30 years after Wimbledon left SW19, AFC Wimbledon will host Doncaster Rovers at the new Plough Lane on Tuesday

May 2020

  • Everton’s Gary Ablett and Graham Stuart celebrate after defeating Wimbledon.

    Guardian Sport Network
    My favourite game: when Everton stayed up on the last day of the season

  • Wimbledon's Dave Beasant saves a penalty from Liverpool’s John Aldridge

    My favourite game
    My favourite game: Liverpool v Wimbledon, 1988 FA Cup final

January 2018

  • Neal Ardley, ex-player and now manager of AFC Wimbledon, poses for a portrait at the club’s training ground in New Malden on January 4th 2018 in Surrey (Photo by Tom Jenkins)

    AFC Wimbledon’s Neal Ardley: ‘If the Crazy Gang happened now we’d all be in prison’

    Wimbledon’s final remaining link with the FA Cup win of 1988, when he was a youth-teamer, tells Paul MacInnes he wants his players to embrace their Wembley date with Spurs

September 2017

  • Dave Bassett was too protective of his Wimbledon players to leave them for very long.

    Guardian Sport Network
    Frank de Boer left Crystal Palace after 77 days. Dave Bassett didn't last 77 hours

    Frank de Boer didn’t win a league game in his short tenure at Selhurst Park. Back in 1984, Dave Bassett didn’t stick around long enough to see the team play

July 2017

  • Frank Lampard and Jose Mourinho of Chelsea celebrate victory, Brian Clough leaves the field at the City Ground for the last time as Forest manager after a 2-0 defeat by Sheffield United, Tony Adams celebrates after scoring a goal against Everton in Arsenal's 4-0 victory, Leicester City's captain Wes Morgan and manager Claudio Ranieri lift the Premier League trophy, Christophe Dugarry of Birmingham City takes on Manchester United's Gary Neville and Eric Cantona reacts against Manchester City. Photographs by Getty Images and Rex Features. Composite Jim Powell

    Premier League at 25: fans from all 47 clubs on their best and worst memories

    Fans from the 47 clubs to have competed in the league reminisce about legends such as Paulo Wanchope, Duncan Ferguson, Juninho and Jay-Jay Okocha

September 2016

  • Arsène Wenger

    Twenty years of Wenger: where are the Arsenal manager’s rivals from 1996 now?

    To illustrate how much the Premier League has changed since Arsenal unveiled Arsène Wenger on 22 September 1996, here is a list of the other managers employed in the top-flight that day

May 2016

  • AFC Wimbledon v Accrington Stanley

    Copa90
    AFC Wimbledon: their manager, fans and staff on their rise through the leagues

    When AFC Wimbledon were formed 14 years ago they held try-outs for players on Wimbledon Common. After five promotions the club is now on the verge of playing at Wembley in a play-off final that could give them a ticket to League One

April 2016

  • Writer John Green.

    Fault in Our Stars author John Green to make film about AFC Wimbledon

    Bestselling YA author has acquired rights to the story of the fan-founded football team who improbably achieved promotion to the Football League

December 2015

  • Don Howe playing for Arsenal in 1966.

    Don Howe obituary

    Footballer who became one of the great coaches in the British game

October 2015

  • Wimbledon FC in 1988

    Plough Lane memories and putting the Crazy Gang’s record straight

    Dave Bassett’s Wimbledon, long derided, deserve greater respect than they have been afforded after coming together to tell a very different story

September 2015

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Book that shows how football history is the history of England's media

    Roy Greenslade
    Author’s history details mutual dependence along with colourful anecdotes

August 2015

  • AFC’s Adebayo Akinfenwa, aka “The Beast” takes on Liam Hughes of Cambridge United as tempers flare at half time during the Sky Bet League Two match between AFC Wimbledon and Cambridge United at the Cherry Red Records Stadium

    Sport picture of the day
    Sport picture of the day: Beast mode on

    Cambridge United’s Liam Hughes comes face-to-face with ‘the World’s strongest footballer’, AFC Wimbledon’s Adebayo Akinfenwa

April 2015

  • Blackpool's manager Ian Holloway celebra

    Before Bournemouth: six clubs who were surprisingly promoted to the top flight

    Bournemouth will almost certainly play in the Premier League next season, but here are half a dozen predecessors who surprisingly won promotion

November 2014

  • Pfannenstiel

    These Football Times
    Meet Lutz Pfannenstiel, football's 25-club, 13-country, six-continent man

    Pfannenstiel played in all six of Fifa’s confederations, spent 101 days in jail and was declared dead while at Bradford Park Avenue. Now he wants to play in Antarctica and save the planet

September 2013

  • Vinnie Jones attacks England

    Vinnie Jones: 'England is past its sell-by date. I couldn't be tempted back'

    Former footballer says Britain lets in too many immigrants and says his sports background puts him on a par with Hollywood stars

March 2013

  • Michael Owen (1998)

    From the Guardian archive
    1997: Teenage sensation Michael Owen to make Liverpool debut

    From the archive, 14 January 1997: In 1997, Michael Owen, still only seventeen, convinced Liverpool he was ready to make his first team debut. When asked about his possible inclusion, Liverpool manager Roy Evans said bluntly: "if you are good enough you are old enough"

June 2011

  • Vinnie Jones

    Football quiz: Wimbledon

    Today's questions now exist in a different form

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